Saturday, May 19, 2012

May 19 - Aunts



Happy Birthday!


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Family Birthdays
Auntie Andrea & Auntie Bren

This Day In History
1499
Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1649
An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1749
King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1780
New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and  New England at 10:30 A.M.
1845
Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
1897
Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.
1911
Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
1986
The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.


Famous Birthdays
1744
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German-born wife of King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1818)
1795
Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873)
1861
Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1871
Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
1880
Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
1897
Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1928
Colin Chapman, British car designer (d. 1982)
1939
Francis Richard 'Dick' Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1941
Nora Ephron, American screenwriter
1942
Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
1944
Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
1945
Pete Townshend, English guitarist (The Who)
1946
André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1951
Joey Ramone, American vocalist and songwriter (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1970
Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
1983
Jessica Fox, English actress

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